Do We Really Need to Be Fighting the Bolsheviks?

In the spring of 19 18, the soviet government in moscow was facing setbacks on all fronts. All of that territory they had lost in the treaty ofbrest tovsk was occupied by the central powers. Down in the south, they were facing a major uprising from the cossacks in the white volunteer army. They more or less did not have any control whatsoever over the trans caucases. Faced with all this, they were going to have to radically re imagine their own military structure. But we're going to start next week by leaping far, far to the east.